More haute couture from the Paris Fashion Week with this elaborate headdress is from the Spring/Summer collection presented by Chinese designer Yiqing Yin. Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images

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Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, speaks to members of the press outside his house following his unexpectedly strong showing in this week's elections. The Israeli actor, journalist, author, former TV presenter and news anchor won 19 of 120 parliamentary seats and is expected to form a coalition government with incumbent prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

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Women wash clothes and laundry in the canal just outside their village, Diabaly. Despite the unrest in Mali ordinary life goes on. Photograph: Joe Penney/Reuters

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responds forcefully to intense questioning about the September attacks on US diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

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Chicago Fire Department Lieutenant Charley De Jesus walks around an ice-covered warehouse that caught fire in Chicago. As an Arctic blast grips the Midwest the cold weather has frozen the water left after the fire was put out. Photograph: John Gress/Reuters

A man walks the Way of Saint James passing the old pilgrim hospital as snow covers the region, in Roncesvalles, northern Spain. Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/AP

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Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney leaves a news conference about the release of the Monetary Policy Report in Ottawa. Photograph: Chris Wattie/Reuters

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A cameraman of a TV channel is seen leaning out of his car shooting the landscape covered with snow on the road to Burguete, northern Spain. Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/AP

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A miner takes a shower after his shift in Hungary's last remaining deep-cast coal mine at Markushegy, west of Budapest. Hungary secured EU regulatory approval on Wednesday for a grant to shut down the uncompetitive coal mine, in the next two years. Photograph: Laszlo Balogh/Reuters

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Prince Harry walks down the steps of a Royal Air Force A-330 transport aircraft, as he arrives home at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, after the completion of his 20 week tour of duty in Afghanistan as an Apache Helicopter Pilot/Gunner with 662 Squadron of the Army Air Corps. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA

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The remains of pickup trucks believed to belong to Islamist rebels hit by French air strikes are reflected in a man's sunglasses in Diabaly, Mali. Photograph: Joe Penney/Reuters

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A very realistic 'The Joker' toy is displayed at the London toy fair in Olympia, today. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images

4.35pm GMT

People wait outside a school to receive new and second-hand clothes - part of humanitarian aid in Aleppo. Photograph: Muzaffar Salman/Reuters

4.30pm GMT

Also in New York, traders on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA

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A woman is bundled up against the cold on New York's 34th Street, in midtown Manhattan today. The temperature was around 12 degrees, but with wind gusts of 15-20 mph, it felt more like five below as people started their day in New York City. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP

3.49pm GMT

Under the spotlight: a participant dances during a local competition for choreography students and professionals in folk, modern and ballroom dancing in St Petersburg, Russia. Photograph: Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters

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3.44pm GMT

People walk on a bridge made of bamboo to cross a polluted part of the Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photograph: Andrew Biraj/Reuters

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3.41pm GMT

Special delivery: a postal worker driving a Royal Mail van delivers mail in the Mendip village of Priddy in Somerset, England. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

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A model walks down the catwalk during the Elie Saab Spring/Summer 2013 Haute-Couture show, part of Paris fashion week at Pavillon Cambon Capucines in Paris. Photograph: Kristy Sparow/Getty Images

And here are the photographers in action: the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, sits down to testify on the attack on US diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

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2.30pm GMT

Another cold day in northern Britain as Jenny Bentley clears her path of snow in Lockton, Yorkshire, as the winter weather continues across the UK. Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PA

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1.45pm GMT

A Sudanese woman laughs as she picks up her parasol felled by the wind next to her fruit and vegetables stand at Gudele market in Juba, South Sudan.

And a child from South Sudan's Bari tribe stands at the entrance to a compound near the market in Juba. Photographs: Camille Lepage/AFP/Getty Images

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1.42pm GMT

Cameras mark positions for photojournalists awaiting the arrival of the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, who is to testify before the Senate foreign relations committee in Washington on the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Updated at 2.42pm GMT

1.26pm GMT

A view of the foyer of the new annexe to Liverpool central library. After 10 years of planning and over two years of restoration the library is nearing completion for its official opening in May. Over 4m items including documents and books are now to be rehoused in the library which has cost £55m. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

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12.56pm GMT

A musher drives his team in a mountainous region near Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis in in south-eastern France last night, at the end of one of the stages of the Grande Odyss
ée sledding race.

And here the dogs rest alongside their mushers after arriving at the end of the stage. Photographs: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images

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12.43pm GMT

Benjamin Thomson, of Canada, gets airborne during the second training session for the Alpine Skiing World Cup downhill ski race in Kitzbuehel, Austria. Photograph: Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters

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12.36pm GMT

French designer Franck Sorbier and his wife Isabelle Tartiere at the end of their Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2013 collection show in Paris. Not sure if it went well... Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images

Updated at 12.47pm GMT

12.30pm GMT

He's won: Roger Federer celebrates after winning his Australian Open quarter final match against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Read the match report. Photograph: Joe Castro/EPA

Updated at 12.48pm GMT

11.55am GMT

Shipyard workers demonstrate outside the labour ministry in Athens, Greece. The workers are on a indefinite strike over pay. Photograph: Orestis Panagiotou/EPA

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11.46am GMT

A rather beautiful image of steam from a heating plant rising as temperatures of -14C are recorded in Minsk, Belarus, today. Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP

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11.41am GMT

A woman walks past a panda sculpture on a smoggy day in Beijing. The poor air quality in China's capital has hit seriously high levels again. Photograph: Feng Li/Getty Images

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11.19am GMT

More ice, another continent: Men play ice hockey on a frozen pond in Aalter, west of Brussels. Photograph: Yves Logghe/AP

An Afghan labourer poses for a photo in a traditional brick factory in Kholm, a district of Mazar-i Sharif. Photograph: Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images

10.34am GMT

Little knitted caps are placed on top of fruit smoothies during the 2013 World Economic Forum annual meeting at the Swiss resort of Davos. The event is taking place from 23 to 27 January. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

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10.19am GMT

A Kashmiri boy rows a boat on the frozen Dal lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. Photograph: Altaf Zargar/ZUMA Press/Corbis

Updated at 10.31am GMT

10.14am GMT

David Cameron makes
a speech on Europe this morning in London in which he promised a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union by the end of 2017, if the Conservatives win the next general election. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Updated at 10.29am GMT

10.03am GMT

Young Kangeroos in an incubator. A gentle giant has been nicknamed Kangaroo Dundee after rescuing and raising more than 200 orphan marsupials. Brolga, a 6ft 7inch Australian, gave up a life in the city to open his own sanctuary in the outback. Photograph: AGB Films/SWNS.com

Cuban artists Leosvel and Diosmani perform during the official Award Gala Evening of the 37th International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo, Monaco. Photograph: Sebastien Nogier/EPA

Updated at 10.27am GMT

9.55am GMT

Also in India, air force fighter jets practise a fly-by during a dress rehearsal for the annual Republic Day parade in New Delhi. Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP

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9.53am GMT

A member of the All India Azad Hind Fauj Freedom-Fighters Successors Association, Santokh Singh, offers a garland to the statue of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in Amritsar, as part of celebrations for the 116th anniversary of his birth. Bose was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Photograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images

Updated at 10.25am GMT

9.50am GMT

Judging by their face make-up a Roger Federer fan arrives with a Jo-Wilfred Tsonga fan at Melbourne Park for the men's
quarter final match between their heroes in the Australian Open championships. Photograph: Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images